Dr. David Eagleman

You've got all this density of memory that you don't normally have because you've written down every detail.

So your brain says, oh, my gosh, this is what happened and the hood crumpled and so on.

But it's because all we're ever conscious of is our memory of an event, as in what happened during the event.

So when you're in a life-threatening situation, you write more down, you think it took longer to transpire.

And by the way, this issue about memory equals time explains a lot of things.

For example, the issue of when you're a child,

And a summertime seems to take forever.

And then by the time you're our age, a summertime seems to disappear.

It's because as a child, you're figuring out the world.

You're writing down lots and lots of memory during that summer.

Oh, this is the first time I ever saw a waterfall and went hiking here and did this thing.

But by the time you're our age, you've sort of seen all the patterns before.

And so what we're, you know, when we look back at a summer, we don't have much new footage to sort of anchor on.

So we say, oh, well, it was the winter.

Now it's the fall.

Okay, fine.

I guess that was really fast.

You know, it's really close.

I wouldn't say I wouldn't use the term frame rate in there.

It's just that you have under normal circumstances, you write down almost nothing.